by phillipw | May 23, 2025 | BU, EN, EY, SA, Ta, TR, Uncategorized, ZE
Zen and Lucas Samaras’s Inner Mirror Cube Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Note: If you step into this cube and the entry door is then closed, you will understand this sonnet… and perhaps much else about...
by phillipw | Jun 20, 2024 | CH, EN, SA
The Eighth Night of Creation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem .. The moonlight causes motion. Petals sway So softly that their movement, more a hint, Seems mystic as their meaning while they play With...
by phillipw | Mar 5, 2024 | EN, SA
After Prolonged Dark Moving Hours His life is opened by the sight of dawn, One dawn unlike the others as the sun Predicts itself before the sunrise drawn By something more than splendor, night outrun By waking in eternity of sky, A realm that never knows horizon or A...
by phillipw | Feb 23, 2024 | EN, SA
In the Woodland This moment, then another, cherry trees Experience a lifted limb, their blooms Go up and down. A blast of wind, or breeze As gentle as the blossoms sees their tombs Implied. “Is this enlightenment?” spring asks. In Maytime forests here...
by phillipw | Jan 23, 2024 | EN, SA, SH, VI
Despite the Yearlong Darkness Under the Hedge Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I pass the place of violets along The little lane that leads me from the square I live in, in my red brick house. No song Is...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2023 | BO, EN, Uncategorized, ZE
Tuesday as Spiritual Breakthrough Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The master teacher of the Zen monks tells One monk to jump to foaming whirlpool waves. He jumps and finds himself in no deep wells...